CCI 205 Mythology UNCG Questions + Answers Graded A+

"And then, lest he should leave the shades untried, dared to descend to Styx, passing the portal Men can Taenarian. Through the phantom dwellers, the buried ghosts, he passed, came to the king of that sad realm, and to Persephone, his consort, and he swept the strings, and chanted..." Identify the most likely story this passage is from - Orpheus and Eurydice A student is asked to compare our contemporary views on heroes to those of antiquity. Which of the following statements most aligns with what we have discussed in class? - The views on heroes are different, but there are a few similar qualities A symbolic interpretation of myth argues - that elements of the stories stand for something else A theogony is - a story about the birth of the gods A thiasus is a - A group that follow Dionysos A thyrsus is - A staff with ivy used by the followers of Dionysus According to Hesiod from what did all things come - Chaos According to Powell, the Judaeo-Christian God is very similar to the Greek - False After much adventure, where did Apollo found his sanctuary? - Delphi Anthropomorphic means - Having human characteristics Aphrodite of Ourania means? - Aphrodite of the HeavensAphrodite turns the mortal women of Cyprus into - Prostitutes Apollo is the god of Song - True Ares is the god of - War Argus has - 100 eyes Athena competed with whom for the patronage of Athens? - Poseidon Complete the analogies below : Achilles: ________ :: Paris : ________ - Athena; Aphrodite